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“You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter. And you can’t put things off, thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them…

So I’m very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so that you can do a great deal of it.”

– Nora Ephron

“A smile is a curved line that sets everything straight.”

– Grace Theresa Ward

“You don’t create your life first and then live it. You create it by living it, not agonizing about it.”

– Terri Trespicio, TEDxKC

“Trust is like a china plate. If you drop it and it breaks, you can put it back together with a lot of work and care. If you drop it and break it a second time, it will split into twice as many pieces and it will require far more time and care to put back together again. But drop and break it enough times, and it will shatter into so many pieces that you will never be able to put it back together again, no matter what you do.”

– Mark Manson

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

– John Ruskin

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”

– Jim Carrey

“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.”

– Anaïs Nin

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

– MAHATMA GANDHI

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.”

– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you’re going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater then oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run – in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”

– Viktor E. Frankl

To me, that’s playing “Big” – being more loyal to your dreams than to your fears.

— Tara Sophia Mohr

Ask, and it shall be given to you;
seek, and you shall find; knock, and
it shall be opened to you.

— Matthew 7:7

“Why should we all use our creative power…? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.”

– Brenda Ueland

Be who YOU are and say what you feel because those who MIND don’t MATTER and those who MATTER don’t MIND.

– Dr. Seuss

“It is the ego of the West that is responsible for all this fighting. We do not want to interfere in the affairs of America or the West. We just want to live our own lives. But we are not being allowed.”

– Abdul Noor, 31, a teacher at Islamabad’s largest religious school. Taken from “Struggle For the Soul of Islam”, Time Magazine, Sept. 13, 2004.

“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”

“Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that… let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe… a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

– President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

– Theodore Roosevelt – 1918

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

– Patrick Henry – March 1775

“You may see success as a platinum plaque, a Grammy nomination and a Range Rover in the garage. I see success as being able to make music, put it out, tour to support it, make a living doing it and change people’s lives along the way.”

– Bionik Brown

“Success is a side-effect of clarity.”

– Steven Sashen

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”

– Anonymous

“The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.”

– Brian Eno

“Celebrate we will, because life is short but sweet for certain.”

– Dave Matthews, “Two Step”

“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.”

– from “Leisure,” by W.H. Davies

“The best things in life aren’t things.”

– Art Buchwald

“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

– Max De Pree

“The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

– Steve Jobs

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

– Albert Einstein

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